Re: Question about pre-meeting document posting deadlines for the IESG and the community

["Murray S. Kucherawy" <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 2:16 PM Keith Moore <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> IMO github has made it much more difficult for participants to follow a
> discussion, since they essentially have to follow it in multiple
> places.   I see advantages to github but only in late stages of a
> document's evolution, when most of the activity is "wordsmithing".
>

+1.

> (2) The diversity of opinions makes me think we should consider
> > allowing working group chairs to decide for their working groups
> > whether, and how long, an embargo should last.
>
> I disagree.   I think it makes it even more difficult for IETF
> participants when every WG essentially has its own rules, and that's to
> IETF's detriment in general.
>

Well, we seem to be okay with some working groups having design teams, most
not; some working groups with one chair, most with two, a few with three;
some use github, many do not; some do interims, many do not; etc.

I think it's a feature, not a bug, that we allow such flexibility.

-MSK, solo